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    Clearing land and laying out new food plots. Advice on where to begin

    Yeah I learned that lesson, fortunately we do have access to a excavator and a bulldozer, and I own a backhoe, time seems to be the one thing we are short of
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    Clearing land and laying out new food plots. Advice on where to begin

    Thats exactly what I plan on doing. Once we get the land cleared to the size we want spraying to kill of the remaining plants before planting our crops. I am not sure how much we will get done this season. I think around January or February going back in and dropping some of the larger maples...
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    Clearing land and laying out new food plots. Advice on where to begin

    I have been to busy with work to do much with our project. I finally got out today to do some scouting these first two pictures are of the clearings already on the property with a little bit of work we should be able to expand them from a couple acres to 7 or 8 maybe more. They are already torn...
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    Clearing land and laying out new food plots. Advice on where to begin

    We plan on putting a lot of work into the size of the food plots and a lot of leg work into scouting and trying to layout everything according to wind direction and access points. I see the two main strategies for creating habitat are hinge cutting and hack and squirt. I definitely see...
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    Clearing land and laying out new food plots. Advice on where to begin

    Thanks I miss read about the sat photo here's a better one there are two separate lots that he owns providing access from two roads. We haven't done any work yet as far as food plots or land clearing. There are two clearings on the property one is just a sand pit the other has a fair amount of...
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    Clearing land and laying out new food plots. Advice on where to begin

    Thanks, Elkaddict i stumbled across your thread and am about 10 pages into reading about your property. Great stuff I hope your health has improved since the start of it. I live in the foothills of the Adirondacks in Fulton County near sacandaga lake. I was fortunate enough to find a landowner...
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    Clearing land and laying out new food plots. Advice on where to begin

    Hi I'm new to this site, and am planning on putting in several food plots on a 200 acre parcel of land in upstate NY. Currently there is next to no clearings with the exception of a 3 or 4 acre clear-cut. The woods seem to be primarily pine and hemlock with a few clusters of hardwoods scattered...
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